Rack.



PATBNTBD JAN. 22, 1907.

S. JAKUBOWSKI.

RACK.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY8,'1905. RENEWED 110124, 1906.

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Patented iTan. 22, 1907.

Application filed July 8,1905. Renewed November 24:, 1906- Serial No. 344.981.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STANLEY J AKUBOWSKI, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at 312 Landon street, East End, Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Racks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in racks, and the invention relates more particularly to a rack adapted to support meats, such as sausages.

My invention aims to provide racks consisting of substantially triangular-shaped bars upon which sausages or flexible pieces of material can be hung or suspended, the shape of bars preventing the sausages from falling or becoming displaced from the bars.

Another object of this invention is to provide novel means for supporting bars whereby the bars can be removed at any time de sired to be cleansed.

It is a Well-known fact that sausages and puddings often become displaced from the ordinary racks, consisting of square or round shaped bars. The least jar or movement of a piece or link of pudding suspended upon a rack will displace the same.

My invention primarily aims to provide a rack upon which sausages or links of pudding will firmly rest when placed thereon; and with this and other objects in view, which will be readily apparent as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings accompanying this application like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of one of the bars of my improved rack. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of a cold-storage room,

2 3. In connection with these bars I employ brackets and clamps 4, each of which consists of a body portion 5, having an upwardly-extending angularly-disposed side 6, the upper edge of which is provided with a lug 7. The body portion 5 upon its one edge opposite the side 6 is provided with two outwardly-extending lugs 8 8, and the one end of the body portion is provided with a depending pierced lug 9. Hinged between the lugs 8 8 by a pin 10 is a clamp or plate 11, in the upper end of which is pivotally mounted a pivoted latch 12. This latch is adapted to normally engage the lug 7 of the side 6, and to retain the latch in this position I employ a spring 14, which is mounted upon the clamp or plate 11 and engages the latch 12. When the clamp or plate 11 is in a closed position, as in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the end of one of the bars 1 is adapted to be supported upon the body portion 5 of the bracket and retained thereon by the clamp or plate 11, this plate together with the side 6 embracing the angularly-disposed sides 2 2 of the bar 1, while the angularly-disposed side 3 of the bar rests upon the body portion 5 of the bracket.

It has been the practice to arrange the meat-supporting racks transversely and longitudinally of the compartment in which they are used, and in Fig. 2 of the drawingsI have illustrated a conventional form of refrigerator as equipped with my improved racks. It will be observed that one of the brackets or clamps 4 is used at each end of the bars'l. When links or pieces of sausage or pudding are placed upon the triangularshaped bars 1, the angularly-disposed sides.

2 2 of the bars engage the sidesof the sansages and assist in supporting the same and preventing the meat from becoming displaced from the bars by the same being moved or jarred, as may happen when opening a refrigerator. It will be observed that the vertex of the angularly-disposed sides 2 2 of the bars serve as the point of support for a string of sausages at the flexible connection between the links, it, of course, being understood that this character of meat is placed upon the bars in such a manner that the ends of the links will be equal upon each side of the bar or as nearly so as possible.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A rack of the character described consisting of bars in substantially the form of a triangular prism, brackets adapted to support said 'bars, said brackets having angularly-disposed sides, plates pivotally connected to said brackets and adapted to engage said sides, and means to lock said plates in engagement with said sides, substantially as described.

2. A rack of the character described consisting of a bar insubstantially the form of a triangular prism, brackets adapted to support the ends of said bar, said brackets con sisting of body portions having depending pierced lugs, plates pivotally connected to said body portions, and means to lock said plates in engagement with said brackets, substantially as described.

3. A rack of the character described consisting of a bar in substantially the form of a triangular prism, brackets adapted to support the ends of said bar, and means to lock the ends of said bar in engagement with said brackets, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

STANLEY J AKUBOWSKI.

Witnesses C. KLOSTERMANN, WM. C. HEITZ. 

